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5-Element
Classes
These are 5
Tanmaatra, 5 Mahaa Bhoot, 5 Gyaan Indriyaan, 5 Karm Indriyaan and their 5 Devtaa for both types of Indriya.
These six groups are indicated here.
A
Aachaman
To wash one's
mouth by taking some water in the mouth and throwing it out after shaking
it in it. Normally it is done three times. It is customary to do it before
doing any worship.
Aahuti
Aahuti is a
kind of offering normally used in Yagya. It can be of anything from Ghee
(clarified butter through fruit, dry fruits, grains to any dry material.
Sometimes this word is used for sacrificing something also, such as
"Gandhi gave the Aahuti of his life to bring the independence to
India".
Aashram
Aatataayee
According to
Bhaagvat Puraan there are six types of people who can be called Aatataayee
- (1) who sets fire, (2) who poisons, (3) who takes up weapons with bad
intention, (4) who robs money, (5) who robs farms, and (6) who takes
other's wife.
Abhimantrit
Doing "Abhimantrit" is a process in which some food, cooked or uncooked, or
money is kept in an utensil with a full pot, small not very big, of water. Then by taking
a little water in hand and circling the food or money three times with a short prayer
according to the occasion. It is offered to whosoever is to be given. Now that food or
money is called Abhimantrit, it cannot be consumed by the person who has Abhimantrit it.
This goes to the person in whose name it is taken out. This process is done for donations
too.
Adhwaryu
According to Ved, he is one of the four priests or Ritwij (Hotaa, Adhwaryu,
Brahmaa and
Udgaataa) who performs ceremonies. He manages the physical aspects of the ceremony, such as the articles,
site etc for the ceremony.
A-Dharm, A-Dwait,
A-Paraa, A-Vidyaa, see A
Agnihotra
Agnihotra is fire ceremony or fire offering to God.
Its meaning is that oblations are constantly offered in the fire of life.
Agyaan or A-Vidyaa
Ignorance. According
to Bhaagvat 3/12 Brahmaa Jee created five types of A-Gyaan in the
beginning of the Creation - Tam (A-Vidyaa), Moh (attachment), Mahaa-Moh (Raag
or intense love), Taamistra (jealousy), and Andh-Taamistra (intense
jealousy)
Ahankaar
Airaavat
Airavat is one of the 10 Ratna (gems) coming out of the Ksheer Saagar Manthan when
Dev and Asur churned the sea to get Ambrosia (Amrit).
Akshauhinee
21,870
chariots, 21,870 elephants, 109,350 foot soldiers, and 65,600 horse riders
make up one Akshauhinee army. (Mahaabhaarat) Kaurav had 11 Akshauhinee
army and Paandav had seven Akshauhinee army.
Atharv Ved
see Ved
AUM
AUM is the word which represents the Absolute Brahm. According to
Upanishad, AUM consists of three letters - A, U, and M, representing
waking, dreaming and deep sleep states. After the word AUM there comes a
state of silence that represents Brahm.
Avataar
Avataar is the Incarnation of God or gods on this earth to come for some purpose.
After fulfilling the purpose, the Incarnation goes away to Heaven. It is believed in Hindu
Religion that Avatars do not take birth like normal birth, they just appear and disappear
from the Earth.
Baayana
Baayana is something, it may be food, cloth,
money or anything else, which is kept separately after doing it "Abhimantrit".
It is normally given to any person in the in-law's house, except husband
and wife of husband's younger brother, (because she receives Baayana from
her). In an in-law's house all people are higher in status than that of
Bahoo (daughter-in-law).
1. Saas (mother of the husband, or mother-in-law),
2. Nanad (sister of the husband, or sister-in-law) and her husband and
their children,
3. Devar (husband's younger brother, or brother-in-law) and his children,
4. Jeth (husband's elder brother, or brother-in-law) and his wife and their
children - (not his son's wife because she can give her Baayana to her as
she will be her aunt-in-law),
5. Maamaa/Maamee and their children,
6. Chaachaa/Chaachee and their children,
7. Buaa and Phoophaa and their children etc excluding their sons' wives,
all are higher to her.
So she can give her Baayanaa to any one of them. Besides she can give
Baayanaa to her younger sister and sister's daughters too.
She can take Baayanaa from son's wife, Devar's wife,
Devar and Jeth's sons' wives, her Maamee, her mother's younger sister.
Barhishmatee
Nagaree
When Varaah Bhagaaan was bringing the Prithvi up
from Rasaatal, His furs fell in this Nagaree. The same fur were converted into evergreen Kush and Kaas. When Manu
got this Nagaree to live, he worshipped Shree Hari on the Aasan of this Kush and Kaas.
Bindusar Teerth
It is that place where Bhagavaan's tears fell from His eyes seeing Kardam Muni's Tap.
Bhrigu (Maharshi)
Son of Varun, the water god. He is devoted to learning. It is believed that
he has prepared Bhrigu Samhitaa in which all possible birth charts are
given and they give three lives' account. In present times many of its pages
are lost.
Brahm Vidyaa
Paraa Vidyaa; or knowledge of Brahm; or knowledge of total existence or
spiritual wisdom that leads to seeker to the realization of Brahm.
According to Upanishad this Vidyaa, knowledge, is absolute, that is why
after knowing this "the unheard becomes heard, and the unknown
becomes known".
Brahmaa
Brahmaa is one of the three forms of Hari to create the world. Secondly,
Brahmaa is one of the four priests (Ritwij) - Hotaa,
Udgaataa, Adhwaryu, and Brahmaa.
Brahmaa's Karm is Praayashchit (to do something difficult as repentence).
Buddhi
There is no one word for Buddhi in English language, but it may be be
expressed as the combination of intellect, wisdom, logic etc qualities.
Mainly it is the ability to discriminate, decide and judge between good and bad,
or what to do and what not to do like issues.
Chaaturhotra
There are four
Hotaa - Hotaa, Adhwaryu, Udgaataa and Brahmaa. Whichever Yagya are
performed with these four people are called Chaaturhotra.
Chakra
Chitta
Mind.
Chitta is general term used for mind, which includes Maanas
(lower mind), Ahankaar (ego) and Buddhi (intellect). It is
used for subconscious mind, the storehouse of all the subtle impressions
of one's thoughts, speech and actions.
Chhand
Dakshinaa see
also Dakshinaa
Dakshinaa is something which is given to a Braahman
after he has performed any kind of activity in a Vaishya's or Kshatriya's house. This "something" can be a small
amount of money, or a large sum, and not only money, it may be cloth, clothes, silver,
gold, cattle or just anything. And there is no limit of that too.
Darshan
Darshan means seeing somebody; a vision; revelation; or a philosophy; to
have a glance at a respectable person, sage, Devtaa, or Bhagvaan.
Dhanvantari
Dhanvantari is one of the
10 Ratna (gems)
coming out of the Ksheer Saagar
Manthan when Dev and Asur churned the sea to get Ambrosia (Amrit). He was appointed as
Devtaa's Vaidya (doctor) since he knew all kinds of medicines. He is the father of Indian
Aayurveda.
Dharm
Dharm is those Karm what are prescribed for a person according to his Varn
and Aashram. Dharm stands on four legs - Vidyaa (knowledge), Daan
(donation), Tap (austerity), and Satya (truth).
Distance
Dwaapar Yug
see Yug
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